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      Archive: 9/24/2012
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        9/24/2012, Tishrei 8, 5773

      Iran Tests Missiles, Unveils Drone


      Iran has tested anti-air and anti-ship missiles and unveiled a new drone, its powerful Revolutionary Guards said on Monday, in a show of military readiness for a war with Israel their chief says is inevitable. Medium-range surface-to-air missiles designed to knock attacking aircraft  out of the sky at a range of 50 kilometers (30 miles) were successfully fired  on Monday, the Guards said in a statement on their official Sepahnews website.The new, Taer-2 missiles were part of an anti-air defence system known as Ra'ad (Thunder), the statement said.

      The FARS news agency called the domestically made missiles "more advanced"  than the Russian-made Buk family of missiles they were based on.

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